{"id":485,"date":"2009-09-22T21:19:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T04:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:18:34","slug":"aw-shingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Aw, shingle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My grandmother used to say “Aw, sugar!” in front of me, instead of swearing. Today I say “Aw, shingle!” because I seriously hurt myself with the glue gun earlier. <\/p>\n

I was gluing shingles on my puzzle house and got a huge glop of hot glue on the back of a shingle. I went to throw it out, thinking that was the best way to prevent it from making a mess, and on the way to the trash can the shingle managed to glue itself to my thumb. That glue was HOT! It stuck to my skin and I had to pull it off with a rag. This wasn’t just a little burn. It hurt big time, in all of my fingers and up my arm. (Um, I hope that’s not a sign of nerve damage…) For about two hours I soaked it in cold water which made it feel better, but when I stopped doing that it hurt so bad I thought I would pass out. (I’m not being a crybaby about this… it really, really hurt!) I took Tylenol a few hours ago and it’s finally bearable, but I suspect that’s more due to the drugs than because it’s miraculously healed. Needless to say, my shingling was cut short for the day.<\/p>\n

But let’s back up a bit. On Sunday, I glued the roof to the puzzle house. The siding I added messed up the fit a little bit, but in general it fit pretty well.<\/p>\n

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Originally I had planned to use my leftover Fairfield shingles on this house, but they’ve already been stained and I felt like the color wasn’t quite right. Plus I didn’t know if I’d have enough to cover it all.<\/p>\n

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I’m trying to keep my costs low on this house, so instead of buying shingles, I thought I’d make my own. I have several bags of Corona Concepts siding strips<\/a> lying around and decided to use these. Usually staining shingles is really messy, but this was easy—I just stained the individual strips before cutting them down to shingle size. I used some Minwax Ebony stain left over from another project. <\/p>\n

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Using the Fairfield’s shingles as a guide, I then cut the strips into individual shingles. Each one is about 3\/8″ wide. The wood is thin and easy to cut with scissors, although it does tend to crack when I try to cut very narrow pieces for the edges or the angle where the gable meets the roof.<\/p>\n

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You can buy shingle strips, which are a lot quicker to apply than individual shingles, but I prefer gluing on shingles one by one because you get a nice variety of shades. Here’s as far as I got before the unfortunate glue gun incident.<\/p>\n

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I’m pretty happy with the look of the shingles. Less so with the trim color. The gray is much more in-your-face than I expected and I just don’t think it looks great, especially compared to the shingles. I feel like it needs to be more subtle. I’m not sure at this point if I should try a different shade of gray, or another color completely.<\/p>\n

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To be continued once my thumb heals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My grandmother used to say “Aw, sugar!” in front of me, instead of swearing. Today I say “Aw, shingle!” because I seriously hurt myself with the glue gun earlier. I was gluing shingles on my puzzle house and got a huge glop of hot glue on the back of a shingle. I went to throw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,9,87],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-half-scale","tag-michaels-puzzle-house","tag-shingles","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}